CULTURE ASSESSMENT FOR EARLY YEARS SETTINGS
Build a where your practitioners do their best work
The Cultiv8tiv Early Years Assessment gives nursery owners and leaders an honest view of how employees experience their workplace culture.
Gather anonymous feedback, assess the setting across 12 connected cultural areas and understand what is helping or preventing your team from delivering its best for children and families.
BUILT FOR EARLY YEARS SETTINGS
Understand the culture behind the care you provide.
A healthy nursery culture supports more than employee engagement. It shapes how practitioners work together, communicate concerns, respond to change and create a safe, consistent environment for children.
But culture can be difficult to judge from the leadership team alone.
The Cultiv8tiv Early Years Assessment gives every employee an anonymous opportunity to share their experience. It helps you understand whether your purpose and values are visible in everyday practice, how nursery leadership and management are experienced and whether employees feel trusted, respected and equipped to perform their roles.
You receive a clear, evidence-based view of your cultural strengths, emerging risks and priorities for improvement.
DESIGNED FOR EARLY YEARS
Assessment language and analysis tailored to the structure, responsibilities and pressures found within nurseries and Early Years settings.
CULTURE PULSE SCORE
Receive a clear headline measure of the overall health and strength of your workplace culture.
NURSERY CULTURE
DETAILED ANALYSIS AND ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
See what is working, understand where problems may be developing and identify practical priorities for positive change.
WHAT THE ASSESSMENT EXPLORES
Assess your Early Years culture across
12 connected areas.
The assessment looks beyond general employee engagement. It explores whether your stated purpose, values and standards are reflected in the decisions and behaviours employees experience every day.
01.
A Purposeful Community
Understand whether employees connect with the nursery’s purpose and feel part of a supportive, inclusive workplace community.
02.
Value-Driven Behaviours
Explore whether your values are clearly understood and reflected in the everyday behaviour of practitioners, managers and leaders.
03.
The Leadership
Measure the trust, respect and confidence employees have in the people responsible for leading the setting.
04.
Management
Understand whether managers create a positive working environment and provide the communication, guidance and support practitioners need.
05.
Employee Motivation
Explore the factors affecting morale, recognition, development and employees’ willingness to contribute their best work.
06.
Mutual Respect
Assess whether employees experience courteous, considerate and confidential behaviour across the nursery.
07.
Two-way Engagement
Measure whether communication is clear and whether practitioners feel heard, informed and able to contribute their ideas.
08.
Challenge and Change
Understand whether employees feel supported through change and comfortable suggesting improvements or challenging existing approaches.
09.
Workforce Accountability
Explore whether colleagues and managers take responsibility, acknowledge mistakes and follow through on their commitments.
10.
Empowered People
Assess whether employees have the role clarity, authority, information, resources and direction required to perform effectively.
11.
A Foundation of Trust
Understand whether employees feel safe, experience fair treatment and have confidence that concerns will be handled appropriately and confidentially.
12.
Organisational Pulse
Bring the findings together to understand employees’ overall experience of working within the nursery.
Twelve connected areas. One honest view of the culture within your setting.
WHEN TO USE IT
Cultural insight for the moments that matter.
Use the Early Years Assessment as an annual review or when a particular challenge means you need a clearer view of employee experience.
Establishing a cultural baseline
Replace assumptions with objective evidence about the health of your nursery culture.
Responding to staffing pressures
Understand the cultural factors affecting workload, morale, motivation and employees’ intentions to stay.
Strengthening leadership and management
Identify how nursery leaders and day-to-day managers are experienced by the wider team.
Building a stronger safeguarding culture
Explore whether employees feel safe, trusted and able to raise concerns with confidence.
Bringing teams together
Identify cliques, communication barriers or inconsistent behaviours that may be affecting cooperation and inclusion.
Measuring progress
Repeat the assessment to understand what has changed and whether previous actions have improved employee experience.
HOW IT WORKS
From setup to insight in five straight forward steps.
We help you configure the assessment before the Cultiv8tiv platform manages its delivery, analysis and reporting.
Configure your assessment
Tell us about your nursery, purpose and values, and define the leadership and management roles within your setting.
Invite your team
Choose which employees will participate and set your preferred closing date. The platform manages invitations and reminder emails.
Collect anonymous feedback
Employees complete the assessment online without needing to create an account. Identifying details are removed from the reporting so people can respond honestly.
Receive your results
Once the assessment closes, Cultiv8tiv analyses the responses and produces your Culture Pulse Score, report summary and detailed category findings.
Turn insight into action
Use the findings to protect what your nursery does well, address emerging concerns and agree clear priorities for improvement.
YOUR EARLY YEARS REPORT
Clear evidence for a healthier nursery culture.
Your report turns employee feedback into accessible insight that nursery owners, leaders and managers can understand and act on.
Culture Pulse Score
A headline measure of the overall health and strength of your nursery culture.
Report summary
A clear narrative explaining the most positive elements of the culture and the areas requiring improvement.
Detailed category analysis
Explore what each category score means and understand the feedback contributing to the result.
Strongest and lowest-scoring areas
Quickly identify where the nursery is performing well and where more focused attention may be required.
Question-level comparisons
Look beneath category scores to understand how employees responded to individual questions.
Response distributions
See whether employees broadly share the same experience or whether views are divided across the team.
Team and department insight
Employee responses are analysed objectively to identify recurring themes, strengths, concerns and underlying causes.
WHO SHOULD USE IT?
Designed for the people responsible for healthy Early Years settings.
FOR NURSERY OWNERS AND LEADERS
Gain an independent view of how your nursery is experienced by the people working within it.
Use the assessment to strengthen your culture, support employees and make better-informed decisions about leadership, communication and working practices.
FOR MULTI-SITE NURSERY GROUPS
Build a consistent view of culture across different settings while identifying where individual nurseries may have distinct strengths or challenges.
Where anonymity thresholds are met, reporting can help you understand different experiences across selected settings or teams.
FOR EARLY YEARS CONSULTANTS & ADVISERS
Introduce objective employee evidence into leadership development, culture improvement and wider organisational support.
The assessment gives you a clear starting point for your work and a baseline against which future progress can be measured.